I'm pretty excited about the Recast reintepretation framework. The basic idea is that we want to capture the data processing pipeline associated with a search for new physics and then provide an API to it (original paper ). This will allow scientists outside the big LHC collaborations to request that a …

I'm just finishing an intense and exciting week focusing a lot on the role of software and data in science.
The big event was a workshop on Indexing Astronomical Software jointly organized by AAS and GitHub and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It was a small workshop with …

This week NYU hosted a Software Carpentry Bootcamp along with Berkeley and U. Washington (the other institutes in the Moore-Sloan data science environment). I sat in on the python classes (there were also classes in R). However, on Monday, there was a huge announcement from the BICEP2 collaboration about the …

We are familiar with the critical role of INSPIRE in searching for
papers, following references, tracking the citations, and providing
author profiles. Now INSPIRE is taking steps to extend this service to
data, thus creating a rich new layer to the information …